Skeptophilia

When I was in eighth grade, a movie aired called The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman .  We were encouraged by our English teacher to watc...

As a linguist, one of the things you have to get used to is that languages change. The denial of this basic fact is at the heart of the argu...

One of the features of linguistics I find the most interesting is regional accents. Americans are usually aware of this phenomenon apropos o...

Having grown up in the Deep South (as my dad used to say, any Deeper South and your hat would be floating), I'm frequently asked why I d...